A LONDON BROWN STONEWARE DATED LARGE TANKARD, WITH SILVER MOUNT 1724 |

probably Vauxhall, of cylindrical form with a grooved strap handle, the upper part with a brown-dipped glaze, sprigged with bust-length portraits of Queen Anne, and a male monarch, probably George I, above a sprigged clockwise scene of a deer hunt, inscribed in script 'William', '1724', 'Brownrigg', the rim with contemporary silver mount unmarked.

Jonathan Horne, London, June 1999, bearing label
Vogel Collection no. 662.1

There are two restored rim chips located above the inscribed words Brownrigg and between the bust of Anne and the tree, There is a restored curving crack which begins to the left of the bust of George I and continues through his shoulders to the middle bunch of leaves to the tree to the right.
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For similar mugs see Wynn Hamilton-Foyn, 'Dated Hunting Mugs', English Ceramic Circle Transactions, 2000, Vol. 17, Part 2.